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    Adjective and kinds of adjective

     
    Types of adjectives 

    in this article you will about the types of adjectives with proper explanations and examples 

    Adjective definition:

    An adjective is a word that is used to add something to the noun or pronoun to show their meaning

    For example

    Ahmed is brave 

    There are thirty boys in this class

    Here in sentence 1, brave is used as an adjective, and in the second sentence, thirty is an adjective. 

    So we can say that a word used with a noun or pronoun to describe or point out the person place animal or thing with the noun names or tell number or quantity is called an adjective.

    Kinds of adjective

    adjective of quantity :

     adjective of quantity shows how much of things is mean 

    For example

    He ate some rice 

    Aslam has little intelligence

    Anwar has lost all his wealth

    You should take care of your health 

    Amjad has no sense 

    (2) Adjective of number: 

    Adjective of number ( numeral adjective) describes how many persons or things are meant or in what a person or things stands 

    For example

    Few dogs like cold weather

    Most boys like football 

    There are seven days in a week

    There are several mistakes in this exercise

    Generally, the adjective of number answer the questions how much many 

    There are three types of the adjective of number

     Definite numeral adjective

    This type of adjective defines an exact number.

    One two three four five six etc. are called cardinals 

    The first, second, third, fourth, fifth etc. are called ordinals

    Indefinite numeral adjective

    This type of adjective does not define an exact number

    For example, All many any some sundry several no few some 

    Distributive numeral adjective

    This type of adjective refers to each one of a number 

     for example, as follow

    Each girl must take his turn 

    Each, every, either, either, are an example of a distributive numeral adjective.

    Demonstrative adjective 

    Demonstrative adjective generally shows which person or thing is meant as

    Ali is stronger than Anwar 

    That girl is industrious 

    These grapes are sour 

    He hates such things 

    Demonstrative adjective answers the question which?

    Interrogative adjective 

    The type of adjective that is used with a noun to ask questions is called an interrogative adjective.

    For example

    What which whose whom when is an interrogative adjective.

    so that was all about types of adjectives I hope you had really liked it if you have any doubt then feel free to ask in the comments section below

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